I’m not sure if this is in the wrong section of the forum or not. But could stress interfere with not wanting to be able to have Lucid Dreams? Saying fear for example. Your too stressed and your afraid of having a LD, and you begin to have LD’s or FA’s and your too scared to face them. Can stress and fear prevent you to let your subconscious mind to keep you from having LD’s? I sometimes feel that I’m afraid to be in a LD because I usually get stressed and think about it too much. But could meditating and letting go of the fear would make you feel better about having more LD’s and being more comfortable when you have them? Sometimes when I have LD or when I attempt a technique and it works I get too afraid because its too real and it looks like real life. How can I get my self to get used to having LD’s? Sorry if none of this makes sense.
The classic “its too real therefore im afraid of it”.
There are several ways to deal with LDs that happen to be too real. The best way to keep a distance between the real world and the dream world is to do impossible for the real world things, like flying, casting spells, talking with animals and whatever you can imagine that you cant do in the real world. The other way is to create a sense that you are in a dream. I cant really describe how to do it, since I dont remember how I developed such a sense, but whenever im awake in a dream, I just feel its a dream without even making a reality check. There is just a certain feeling, when you notice it, you will know.
Anyway, this is a temporary solution for the bigger problem - you are afraid of unreal things that look real. You are afraid of your reality being torn apart, am I right?
Instead of fearing it, accept it and think about whats the worst that could happen? Stuck in a really long dream thinking its reality or living few days in reality with the wrong thought of it being a dream. In both cases its not as bad as fearing lucid dreaming everytime, because it just looks too real.
Once of these two things happened to me, it wasnt pleasant at all, I was scared for a long time, but in the end, do you know what? I dont really care what happens, I just want to enjoy my time. Just embrace what happened and fck it anyway.
Yeah that’s what the problem was, when I usually do end up having a LD through RC’s I have no problem, they only last a couple minutes though. But when I wake up in the dream world. I feel like I don’t want to escape my bedroom or do nothing at all. Because you don’t know what could pop out of no where. One of my main goals is to get passed this fear and enjoy my LD’s.
Oh come on >.< I’m trying to make things pop-out of nowhere, cause I find it too boring if nothing happens. Stop thinking whats the worst that can happen and start thinking whats the best that can happen. Even if a bad thing happens, if you expected a good thing to happen, you will take it a lot, lot more lightly.
Make your imagination run wild… for everything you’ve read/known/dreamt in your life, what do you desire to experience mostly? Dreams are place where imagination unfolds as your reality, possibilities are possibilities of imagination itself. No matter how unreal it looks, if you desire it, it will probably happen.
Or for example, if you are in the dark and afraid of whats behind it, just speak out loud “Who are you? Show yourself!”. Chances are that something will appear and you will see what you’ve been so afraid of, and believe me, its not that scary at all. Just a tip from personal experience, dont call names out from the dark, while nothing happens most of the times, when it happens, shits get real.